Once the scene settled, the guardians noticed that there was nothing but white everywhere. "Jack, where is dis place?" North asked.

"This is Antarctica. It's where we would go sometimes. Let's continue." Jack stated, wondering just what point in time were they in when they were in Antarctica.

"Sandy, what are we doing here?" Memory Jack asked which then told current Jack that this was the very beginning of himself in Antarctica.

"Well, we have a couple hours until I have to go back to the children, and we haven't tested out your powers much yet. It's been nearly two years and you've still only been able to frost things, and you said you wanted to start testing your limits. Well, look no further. Everything is already frosted here. This place is covered in ice and snow, and it's going to be up to you to change it just a little."

"What do you mean change it?"

"Jack, whether you really realize it or not...you can do far more than just simply frost things. That was made clear to me when I held your staff. Now...you've seen snow right?"

"Well..." Jack looked around with a smirk on his lips before he looked back at Sandy. "...considering we're surrounded by it, I hope so."

"Good, well...as you can tell, it's not snowing yet. The first thing you're going to try and do is make it snow."

"You want ME...to make it snow?"

"Yes, that's right."

"And how the hell am I supposed to do that?"

Sandy sighed and shook his head. "You're gonna have to figure that one out Jack. Don't worry, I'll be right here if you need me."

Jack nodded his head and held his staff. A few times he had pointed it into the air hoping for something to happen, a few times he tried to use his hands, and once he even asked the wind what he should do but he received no reply. Then, he heard Sandy laughing. "Oh, and what's so funny, little man?"

"Well, for starters, you're trying too hard. You're focusing way too hard and frankly, you look hilarious in your attempts."

"What do you suggest I do then?" Jack asked, not out of impatience or frustration, but in genuine want for guidance.

"You need to be yourself. Search inside your heart and soul and find something to latch onto. Something that makes you feel like you're at your happiest. When you first frosted the tree you told me about...and then you frosted the frozen pond, what did it feel like?"

"I felt...joyful. I was hopeful, filled with wonder, it was so amazing it was like it was in a dream, and I don't think I could ever forget that feeling if I wanted to. It made me...what's the word...giddy I suppose. When I frosted the pond...my heart and soul practically soared and danced at the same time. I was having so much fun."

"That's..."

"Sandy?" Jack gave him a curious glance as he noticed the surprised expression on his friend's face. "Everything alright?"

"Yeah, everything is perfectly fine." He answered with a surprised chuckle. "That's something you need to hold onto. All of those feelings you described, hold onto it and allow yourself to feel it again and then you can try and picture snow falling...all while allowing your body to move in the way it wants to. Don't be ashamed to look a little ridiculous as long as that feeling soars through you in everything you do."

Jack put a hand over his chest and remembered the feeling, and he quickly felt it rise in his chest and eventually his whole body. Then, without warning, he shot up into the air and spun his body around laughing out every laugh his soul felt. He felt his powers rush through his body and it was as if it was dancing with him and the wind all at once. He dove down towards the icy waters, and he almost touched it, before he felt the need to fly back up to the sky and he had the strongest feeling he wanted nothing more than for the snow to join in the dance his soul and him were having with the wind. Then, to his surprise he felt his power surge and his whole body tingle joyously as if his heart and soul were having fun, and then he felt it around him. It was snowing, and it was wonderful. He continued to have fun as he danced with the snow and the wind, until he felt the need to land and be next to Sandy to share his joy. "That...That was amazing!"

"You preformed beautifully, Jack! I'm so proud of you! And look at what you did."

Jack looked around them as the snow fell fast, yet gently. He looked on in awe as he noticed that even the snowflakes seemed to dance after he landed. "Wow...I really did that...Sandy...I made it snow Sandy!" Jack jumped up and down in pure excitement, and the wind twirled around him hugging him tightly.

"You dance beautifully, Jack." The wind said with a light chuckle.

"Yes, Jack you made it snow, and I suspect there is still yet more you can do, but for now, we need to go. There are children who need dreams."

"Right behind you, Sandy!" Jack laughed out with his heart feeling full of joy.

Jack looked over at his fellow guardians and couldn't help the soft chuckle that escaped his lips. "It's a fun feeling isn't it?"

"Jack...I'm...I'm speechless." North admitted as his eyes were still wide and a joyful smile was plastered on his face.

Jack chuckled lightly, but then he heard Bunny laughing. "Bunny, you alright there?"

"Am I alright? You're forgetting, mate, I'm feeling all of this tenfold, and It was all so incredible and wonderful. It was amazing. Jack, your powers...what they feel like through you...I can safely say, even though I feel it tenfold...It is like nothing I've ever heard of, and certainly like nothing I've ever felt. You were so carefree..."

"Yeah, and it always feels like that." Jack smirked.

"Sandy...I had no idea you make such good teacher." North stated as he was finally brought down from all the joy that Jack had felt.

Sandy shrugged his shoulders and shook his head while a symbol of Jack appeared above his head.

"Did you get that? Or am I the new Sandy translator now...?" Jack joked and gained a hearty laugh from North.

"No, I understood it. He said he didn't know he could be such a good teacher either until you came along."

"That's exactly it." Jack stated happily.

"So...quick question..." Tooth started with slight giggles dying down. "We um...are we gonna see mostly you training with Sandy?"

"I have no idea. He taught me quite a bit, but I don't know what to expect. One way to find out though...Let's continue."

The scene changed and this time it was of Jack and Sandy flying over the ocean. "Hey, Sandy...look!"

Sandy turned to look at where Jack was pointing, and he noticed that there were dolphins jumping in and out of the water. "They're dolphins jack, what about them?"

"I think they're beautiful. I...we talked about this a while back...but I think I finally picked my favorite animal."

"Your favorite animal is a dolphin?" Sandy asked with an amused expression.

"I believe so, but I can't go near them without nearly freezing them or the water."

Sandy's expression went from amused to understanding in a matter of seconds. "Jack, look at me."

Jack did as he was told and noticed that Sandy was letting out some of his sand. "Sandy, there's no children here."

"Ah, but there is a child. You're still a child, Jack. That alone makes you precious. Here...touch the sand."

"A-Are you sure?"

"I wouldn't have told you to if I wasn't, you know that. We've been traveling together for a little over two decades now."

"A-Alright..." Jack gently and hesitantly touched the sand, and to his amazement dolphins sprang from the sand and they jumped in and out of the sand as they swam around him. There was one that started moving backwards on just it's tail, and Jack couldn't help but laugh lightly in his astonishment. "I...I touched the sand and dolphins appeared!"

"Yes they did, and this way you can be near the dolphins without having to worry about hurting them."

Jack lunged forward and gave Sandy a tight hug. "Thank you, Sandy!" He let go of the hug and realized something that Sandy had just said. "Hey, what do you mean me still being a child makes me precious? And how am I still a child if my voice is already deep? Wouldn't that mean I'm a young man?"

"You are a child until you are either eighteen or in your twenties or until you stop believing...which ever comes first. Anyway, you are not there and you will likely stay this way. As for how it makes you precious...I told you about those I work with right?"

"Yeah...North, Tooth, and the Easter Bunny...right?"

"Yes...but did I ever tell you what we do?"

"I...I don't think you did."

"We are called guardians. We look after all the children in the world with our unique gifts, and those that believe in us are special to us. We protect them and bring them any happiness we can with our own ways. North brings them wonder, Bunny brings them hope, Tooth helps them to remember memories, and I bring them sweet dreams as you well know."

"That's amazing! So...what all do you guys protect them from?"

"Well...we protect them from our opposites. We keep them from feeling distraught or depressed, hopeless, forgotten, and even from their own bad thoughts and nightmares. We keep all kinds of sadness and evil at bay."

"Wait wait...evil? What kind of evil?"

"Well...a long time ago there was a creature called The Boogeyman also known as Pitch Black. He wanted to cause darkness and pain and sadness and fear...he thrived in it back in his day, but then we, the guardians, stopped him. We brought the children wonder, hope, good memories, sweet dreams and most importantly we brought them happiness and light. There are also other types of evil that we try and keep at bay that aren't in creature form...but mortal form, and I pray that you never see that as long as you live, Jack."

"What kind of mortal evil."

"No, Jack!" Sandy snapped strictly.

"I just...I'm sorry..." Jack shrank a little as Sandy took the sand into his cloud.

"No, I'm sorry...I shouldn't have snapped. Just...don't ever ask me to explain that kind of evil. If I can help it, you will never know such things." Sandy started flying towards where ever their destination was and he let out a frustrated sigh.

Jack's eyes narrowed in confusion. "I don't get it..."

"Don't get what?" Sandy asked as he began to calm down more.

"The way you talk about protecting me...You always make sure I eat, that I'm as warm as I can be being me...You've taught me about the mortal world, our world, the different spirits both the good and the bad, you've taught me how to control my powers and have taught me to be myself and to never let go of my wonder, hope, dreams, and memories whether their good or bad...and then you talk about how you and the other guardians do that with the children...Well...if I didn't know any better, I would say that you were taking it upon yourself to be my personal guardian." Current Jack heard audible gasps from the other guardians except for Sandy, and he felt in his heart that there was a very good reason for that, but he would ask that later after this memory is over. Sandy stopped flying immediately. He didn't turn to face Jack, he just stood there silently. After a while, Memory Jack placed a hand on Sandy's shoulder. "Sandy?"

"And what if I am?"

"Excuse me?"

"What if I am taking it upon myself to be your personal guardian?"

Jack's jaw dropped and he felt breathless as his heart hammered in his chest. "B-But why?"

"Jack..."

"Sandy...please tell me."

"I just...it's hard to explain...even for me...but I can't help it. It's...I guess...from what I've seen from the children and their families...It's like...no...never mind."

"Sandy, c'mon...you can tell me."

Sandy nodded and let out a shaky and unsure breath. "It's almost as if I've started looking at you as if you were a son to me, and I don' t know entirely why. What I do know is that I don't care what anyone else might say, I'll be there for you when I can, and I will be your guardian."

"Wow..." Jack said breathlessly. What he had thought Sandy might say, it certainly wasn't that, but then he felt his joyfulness bubble in his chest. "...that's amazing! And I don't feel like a fool anymore."

"What do you mean, Jack?"

"Well..." Jack started as he nervously rubbed the back of his neck while his version of a blush appeared on his cheeks, coloring them a beautiful shade of lavender. "For a while...I've felt like I've been looking at you as you being like a father to me. I've thought so for a while now."

"F-For how long!?" Sandy stuttered out with wide eyes.

Current Jack was pretty sure he could hear a pin drop in the room if one were to fall. So instead of waiting until later like he had originally planned, he cleared his throat and looked to the other guardians giving them a break from the scene when he spoke. "Guys, are you all alright?" For what felt like hours, but was really a out five minutes, Jack waited for someone, anyone to say anything, but they all just looked at him and Sandy with stunned expressions and slightly dropped Jaws. "Say something...anything...I know you want to."

"When..." North started slowly with his wide eyes and raised brows. "When Pitch came back and did what he did to Sandy...and you went after him..."

"I am almost certain you will find that one out later."

"Jack...you really thought of Sandy as a father, mate?"

"You tell me, Bunny."

Bunny nodded and held a paw to his chest. "Still?" He asked curiously.

"If I'm to be honest...yeah. If it wasn't for him...I would've been alone for over three hundred years. Not to mention I would still be lost and know nothing about my powers which would've likely made me uncontrollable. Why...is that strange?"

"Well...no not exactly. I mean, I see Tooth as a sister so there's that...It's not weird that some of us think of each other like family. What's strange...well not strange, more of shocking...but uh...what's shocking is that Sandy considers you a son, and he's taking it upon himself to be your personal guardian. I mean, yeah we protect our own as much we do the children, mate, but I don't think I've ever heard of any of us becoming another spirit's or guardian's...guardian...and I've known Sandy long enough to know that he doesn't lie...especially when it comes to how he personally feels about something."

"Well, that's good to know...but is it a bad thing that I see him like a father and he sees me as a son?"

"No...I don't see any reason why there would be anything wrong with it. It's just...in all our years we've never heard of that happening, let alone a guardian becoming a personal guardian to a spirit, and since Manny hasn't done anythin' to separate the two of ya, it must be okay."

"Good to know...well...I guess that..."

"No hold on Jack..." Tooth interrupted.

"Okay..." Jack drew out with a confused look.

"Sandy...why did you never tell us about Jack?" She asked.

Sandy gave a frustrated expression as he looked back and forth between all of the guardians as images frantically appeared above his head. "Uh...Jack...can you uh..." North started, but quickly noticed the expression on the youngest guardian's face.

Jack's jaw dropped as he looked at Sandy. "Um...he said...'And how exactly was I to do that? We were friends, but we were friends who bickered about small disagreements and Bunny openly said how much he dislike him, and I'm fairly certain back then either you or Bunny would've told me that it was a bad idea and to just leave the spirit be and go back to focusing on the children of the world. You would've told me that I was stretching myself too thin. So, tell me, at what point in time with how we all were back then, was I supposed to tell you something that personal to me?'" Jack turned to look at the other guardians and noticed their shamed looks. "What were you guys like back then?"

"Well it's uh...It's like Sandy said." North answered. "After we defeated Pitch we became wrapped up making sure that the children of the world had what they needed, but we did bicker, and we told each other that our sole focus was to the children in our own ways, all while trying to protect them. He's right...we did talk to each other at meetings, but we all tried making meetings as short as possible so we could get back to work. I can't say he's wrong how I would've reacted. I probably would've told him he was stretching self too thin."

"When did you guys even out? Because the way I understand it...all of you are almost a thousand years old give or take...so when did you all even out and cool your jets?"

"Well...considering everything we been seeing...about a hundred or so years after he met you." North answered with a bit of shame in his eyes.

"Hmm...well...can't do anything to change that now. Let's continue." Jack felt a slight bit awkward in the conversation since it basically meant that Sandy had kept him a secret for a very long time and that Bunny was telling the truth about not knowing him until shortly before the blizzard of '68.

"For how long what?"

"How long have you been considering me like a father to you?"

"Uh...since Antarctica."

"Which time?" Sandy smirked, but there was still shock evident in his eyes.

"The first time. It really hit hard when you said you were proud of me. I don't why, but that meant a lot to me."

"Huh...I had no idea." Sandy began smiling widely. "Well, I suppose this is good then."

"How so?"

"Well, I thought...for a while there...I didn't know just how you would take it...me thinking of you like a son and all. This will just make things more interesting."

"Apparently." Jack said with a slight chuckle.

The scene changed once more, and everyone noticed that Jack was breathing hard, they were in Antarctica, and Sandy floated just above the snow with a concerned look on his face. "Jack, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, just..."

"Was it what the storm spirit said?"

"Something like that..." Jack answered as he allowed his breathing to even out.

"Listen to me..." Jack didn't turn so Sandy flew in front of him. "You look at me and listen, Jack Frost!" Jack immediately looked at Sandy with stunned and saddened eyes. Sandy's tone was commanding, and he had never used his full name like that. He's said it, but not in what seemed to be anger. Sandy's furious eyes soften and he let out a sigh. "You are NOT unwanted. You are NOT a mistake. You are NOT a nuisance, and you are certainly NOT a danger to children. You are still learning. You are a good spirit, Jack."

"If I'm so good, then why do the others hate me so much, Sandy?"

"I don't think they hate you...but they may be jealous of you and...a bit curious."

"What do you mean?"

"Well...You're spending time with me...a known guardian, and they don't know why I'm letting you. They probably think I should just ignore you. They wouldn't dare to ask, and I suspect that they wouldn't even spread rumors of it. Also, you are the youngest spirit so far, not only that, but your form is that of a child and you are a seasonal spirit. They're wondering what you will do and what type of spirit you will grow into once you fully realize your powers."

"How long will that take? It's been a hundred and fifty years since I came out of the pond, Sandy, and I can't believe it, but you're right. The world has changed so much. Anyway...I've figured out I can make it snow, I can properly fly with the wind, I can make ice, I can make my frost go a further distance now, and I finally got the Wind to move around the snow to create blizzards. What else is there?"

"Jack, let me tell you something. The longer you live, the more you'll learn, and the more you let someone's negative words affect you, the more you're letting yourself...lose yourself. Just be yourself as much as possible. There will likely be more who say negative things, but they do it in ignorance and arrogance. You are none of those things. You are intelligent and you don't boast about what you can do. You are kind, mischievous, and curious. Now...what do you say we go give the children in North America a snow day? Sound fun?"

"Yeah...that does. Sorry I reacted that way, Sandy."

"It's alright, Jack. Everyone has their moments, you'll undoubtedly have more than a few, but you have to remember to be as true to yourself as possible."

"I'll try."

"That's all I ask." They flew off and the scene changed once again.